News

26/6/2019

A global action plan for SDG3

In 2018, the governments of Ghana, Germany and Norway requested the World Health Organization (WHO) to take the lead in an initiative to improve the coordination of international cooperation in the health sector. Read more

News

25/6/2019

Wemos’ voting advice in response to recent debate on medicines policy

Members of the Dutch Parliaments’ committee on Health, Welfare and Sport had a debate on medicines policy in The Netherlands. Read more

Map of the Netherlands / Kaart van Nederland

News

17/5/2019

Our report praised as ‘inspiring’ in Dutch SDGs report

In the third edition of the Dutch Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) report, published this month, our Malawi country report was mentioned as one “inspiring example” of how the SDGs are taking shape by civil society. Read more

News

17/5/2019

An evening in de Rode Hoed about big pharma, concerns and hope

“A collective stranglehold”. This is how the debate moderator Martijn de Greve described the current pharmaceutical system during last night’s debate ‘Pharma’s Other Futures’ in the Rode Hoed. Read more

Overpriced medicines/ Te dure medicijnen

News

10/5/2019

Overpriced drugs developed with tax money

Overpriced – Drugs developed with Dutch public funding, a report published today jointly by The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and Wemos, examines the extent of Dutch public funding of drug development, through donations, loans and/or investments. Read more

News

8/5/2019

This is how the EU & Dutch government can achieve equal access to medicines

Why are (some) medicines so expensive? How are medicines developed in the Netherlands, and how does this system contribute to unequal access to medicines? Read more

News

24/4/2019

EU medicines manifesto: put the health of European citizens first

There is increasing pressure on access to affordable, innovative medicines for many European citizens. Change is urgently needed. Read more

News

19/3/2019

40 years of commitment to global health

40 years ago today, a group of medical students united to focus on global public health. Since then, we have grown into an international lobbying organisation that is strongly committed to advocating the right to health for all. Read more

Blog

19/3/2019

19 March 1979 – the start of Wemos

In early March 1979, I – Wilbert Bannenberg, an intern doctor at the time – put a notice on the bulletin board of the Faculty of Medicine at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I was looking for other students with whom to discuss working as a doctor in low- and middle-income countries. Read more